Screen sharing from the Mac uses Video-based Screen Sharing (VbSS), which is faster and more reliable than Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) used by SMA. The meeting experience is built around a larger and more immersive display of video and shared content.
The desktop app brings many advantages over SMA: Screen sharing, audio, and video are significantly more reliable. How would you like to join your meeting? web page Starting in April, the joining web pages will only offer SfB desktop app for download. In order to provide the best and most stable meeting experience on Mac, we will provide the Skype for Business desktop app for all users. SMA is available for meetings hosted on SfB Online or on SfB 2015 Server that is configured to use the online Microsoft Content Delivery Network (CDN).) (The Skype Meetings App, or SMA for short, is a web-downloadable meetings app for use when a Skype for Business desktop app is not installed on a computer. Everything is now in place, and we will make the transition on April 5! Due to feedback from customers, we decided to postpone the change. In October, 2018, we announced a plan to offer the Skype for Business desktop app on Mac as our web-downloadable meetings client instead of Skype Meetings App, starting in December.
